A year of the rabbit for watch brands?
China, which weighed on watch exports at end 2022, will be the key to activity in 2023, a year that opens with mixed prospects. Will China’s impact on luxury sales be as great as in 2021?
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What next for the pre-owned market?
Once dismissed as a hang-out for unscrupulous traders touting fakes, in little more than a decade the pre-owned watch market has grown to remarkable proportions and is expected to surpass sales of new watches. Consultancy firm LuxeConsult predicts this reversal in roles for 2033.
Luxury is back – ask investors!
Mirroring the 11% gain registered by Swiss watch exports over the first four months of the year, share prices in the luxury segment have climbed, reaching new highs in May.
Have millennials fallen out of love with business?
Deloitte's latest Millennial Survey leaves little room for doubt. Uneasy about the growth of Industry 4.0 and its attendant technologies, millennials see business as focusing too much on the bottom line and not enough on society and the environment. What are the main takeaways of this year's report?
Richemont looks to the future
Richemont's results for the year to end March 2018 may lack sparkle, they are also indicative that the group is positioning itself strongly for the next thirty years; the kind of farsightedness that has so far been crowned with success.
Hublot puts the bling into bulletproof
The ultimate luxury: Hublot presents the Big Bang Tourbillon Croco High Jewellery, paved with 13.4 carats of diamonds, complete with a bulletproof crocodile jacket. Yours for $1 million.
Online watch retailing can't ignore China
As the economy picks up and China returns as a prime destination for Swiss watch exports, the battle for shoppers moves online... an area dominated by WeChat.
F.P.Journe Chronomètre à Résonance, 35 years and counting
Following in the footsteps of Antide Janvier, François-Paul Journe has mastered the phenomenon of resonance, but in a wristwatch. This has been a slow process that began 35 years ago and gave us the first Chronomètre à Résonance F.P. Journe in 2000.
